Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From then on, the students seemed less sure of themselves. Solarz shifted to questions about the Eritrean rebellion in Ethiopia and the civil war in Rhodesia. The students seemed confounded. "You are asking us to perform a great abstraction," complained Álvarez. "No, I'm not," said Solarz, "I'm just asking for your personal opinions." "Our opinion is free, open and democratic," explained Jiménez, "but it must coincide with the foreign policy of the revolutionary Cuban government...
...conditional, was welcome news for Robert Strauss, the White House's chief jawboner. For the past two months, Strauss has been struggling to get industry to support the President's inflation program, which calls not only for executives to hold their own pay raises this year to less than 5% but also for companies to keep their 1978 price increases below the average of the past two years. A scattering of the nation's largest companies have agreed to cooperate on the question of executive salary increases, but until Bethlehem, only a few, such as Kaiser Aluminum...
...employees of the Postal Service are being closely watched by union leaders as indicators of future trends. The Administration is optimistic that the postal workers, whose talks enter the hard-bargaining phase this week, will cooperate. The outcome of the railroad workers' negotiations is less certain. Their contract expired at the end of last year, and Bosworth fears that the new package might well reach 30% or so in increases over the next three years. If that happens, even companies like Bethlehem Steel would have a bona fide excuse to start raising their prices all over again...
...bribes. Despite such visible failings, he argues, there is far more talent in business than in politics, and therefore business should do much to solve global problems, including malnutrition. This is both the right and the smart thing to do, he reasons, and business should be willing to accept less than its usual profit, since Third World pressures will disrupt Western economies if hunger continues...
...high the walls of protectionism abroad. The increasing value of the yen automatically increases the prices of Japanese goods overseas, inevitably hurting an economy based so heavily on trade. In addition, Japan's shipbuilding yards and textile mills are meeting tough competition from spanking new facilities in lowpaying, less developed nations such as Brazil and South Korea. Small-and medium-size general merchandise producers of toys, hardware and household goods are losing markets to rivals in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Profits are meager for many companies, and 18,000 firms went bankrupt last year...